Beth Quinn is the wife of Lance Quinn, the pastor of Bethany Church on the Hill. Recently, Beth was diagnosed with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. This cancer has spread to other areas of her body and doctors plan to begin aggressive treatment. This page will be updated regularly so that you may know about Beth's condition and pray for her. Included is a link to contribute to the medical fund.

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Updates from Pastor lance & Beth

November 6, 2018

For all of you who were previously unaware of my wife Beth’s bout with lung cancer, we received, on Friday, some very encouraging news regarding her scan results. The treatment regimen she’s currently on is proving quite effective in keeping the cancer at bay. While we received an initial and very dire diagnosis back in December of 2017 (we were told she has stage 4 incurable cancer of the lung [of the non-small cell, non-smoker kind]), we have sought to trust the Lord in these hard things. Over the early months of her diagnosis, the cancer spread to several other places, including her brain, but over the last 8 months of chemotherapy, Friday’s news showed definite decreases in the cancer’s overall spread! As of now, other than the left lobe of the lung, there is no detectable cancer elsewhere! While we are certainly trusting in a sovereign God to give us His unfolding providential will, the treatment is being used to extend her life! This is giving us as her family and dear sweet friends more time with her, and for this we are most grateful!! Thank you for praying for her as she continues to persevere in faith.

May our gracious God be praised!

Pastor Lance

August 16, 2018

To all our precious praying friends: below is the text I sent to our family group text today! We can’t begin to thank you all for your love, concern and prayers. God is giving us more time and we are so grateful!

Hi Everyone! We just left the doctor’s office. He was very happy as he showed us the CT scan results! The largest tumor in my lung is unchanged, so no new growth. The adrenal gland tumor is smaller. And the best news is that all the tumors in my liver are now undetectable! So, the chemo is doing its job for now!!! I began crying and thanking the Lord for His mercy as soon as we stepped out of his office. I love you all and thank you for always praying. God is being gracious to me.

Beth

June 14, 2018

Here’s the latest from today:

Beth and I are praising our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, for a good report of Beth’s brain MRI today. There are no detectable cancer tumors at this time. Now it's on to a new chemo med beginning a week from tomorrow! Thank you all so much for your prayers and concern.

Pastor Lance

June 12, 2018

Beth and I wanted to let all you know that we met with the oncologist (cancer doctor) yesterday for the results of her latest CT scan. The scan revealed another reduction in the main lung tumor. It was considered a slight reduction, but a reduction nonetheless! All else was stable as far as no current cancer growth anywhere else was concerned, nor were any new lesions detected in any other places. So overall, a pretty good report. Beth will keep receiving chemo infusions every three weeks. The oncologist is dropping one of the two chemo drugs she’s been on for 18 weeks now, and is adding a drug called Avastin in order to prevent the cancer cells from developing their own blood vessels, which is critical for them and their diabolical spreading!

Beth also has a another brain MRI scheduled for this Thursday with the Gamma Knife specialist, who has already treated her twice, already eradicating 13 brain tumors. Please pray that this MRI will reveal no new cancer cells in the brain. We are so grateful to all of you for praying for her and our family. These summer months—and into the Fall—will be very important days for her overall health and continued treatments.

We love you all,

Pastor Lance

April 27, 2018

My wife, Beth, received her 4 week CT scan results today from our oncologist and it revealed wonderful news: the cancerous tumor in her lung has been greatly reduced in size! From her 2nd chemo treatment and earlier scan results to the now 4th infusion (last Friday), there has been a 56% reduction in the size of the lung mass. Therefore, the two-pronged chemo drugs are effectively doing their work, including also sizably reducing the cancer size and spread in each of the other parts of her body where other tumors have been seen. If indeed it continues to be this effective, Beth will thus have two more chemo infusions and then the oncologist will change the chemo med in order to anticipate and deal with Beth’s particular cancer cell mutation. For today’s news though—and the earlier news of her 13 brain tumors being effectively treated with two previous Gamma knife radiation surgeries—we are praising God for His kindness in further extending Beth’s life here on earth! May He be glorified by all who know of our current struggle and who have been interceding on Beth’s and my behalf. God is good and He does good (Psalm 119:68a)!

Pastor Lance

April 11, 2018

Hi sweet family! I had a MRI this morning and then an appointment with the brain surgeon. He read the scan and said all the previous tumors that were radiated are completely gone! He also said there are NO new tumors in my brain! I am crying tears of joy and thankfulness! The doctor said as we were finishing: “You must have a lot of prayers going up for you because your scan looks fantastic!” Praise God!

Love,

Beth

March 20, 2018

Update for our precious praying friends:

First of all, please know how grateful I am for the outpouring of love and sincere prayers for me and our whole family since the diagnosis of stage IV metastatic lung cancer I received on December 2nd.

After many setbacks, we finally received some good news today! After over 4 weeks on a certain chemotherapy regimen, I had a scan last Friday. We met with the oncologist today and learned that the chemo appears to be working! There were words in the radiologists' report like, "improved, stable, and dramatically decreased in size!" As you can imagine, we are thankful and praising God for this encouraging news. The plan, for now, is that I will continue with this chemo for the next 3.5 months and then have another scan.

We are beyond grateful for your continued prayers. As the doctor reminded us today, this disease has no "cure" (apart from God's miraculous healing hand, which is still our prayer!), but there are things we can do to prolong life. And so, our family treasures each day as we commit the future into God's good, righteous, perfect, and loving hands. He gives us strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, no matter what happens!

I wish I could personally hug each one of you and thank you for your prayers!

Love,

Beth

March 9, 2018

My precious wife, Beth Quinn, is celebrating her 55th birthday today! This is so significant for us, given that she is in the fight of her life against non-smoker lung cancer. Beth had her second chemo infusion today. In consulting with the oncologist, here is where we are as of right now:

Dr. Slomowitz believes that the current chemo med is the right treatment for the time being, and that the kind of chemo, from his perspective, is working. He even wants to move up the CT scan to take place after this second infusion instead of the third, in order to confirm for himself (and us) that the tumors are indeed decreasing. We also received word from him that Beth does have a cancer cell mutation called, HER2, which in Adeno Carcinoma of the lung, occurs only 1% of the time (usually much more common in breast cancer patients). But, he is believing that this is actually better news for us than having the so-called MET mutation. Given this uncommon combination of non-smoker lung cancer with the HER2 mutation, and yet having a solid plan of attack, we hope and pray that more life, in the gracious providence of God, will be extended to Beth. If our great God is pleased to do so, we look forward to continuing as a couple to be a genuine ministry blessing to both our physical and spiritual families. We love you all in Christ.

Pastor Lance

February 28, 2018

I cannot thank all of you enough for praying so fervently for my wife, Beth Quinn, in her battle with stage 4, non-smoker lung cancer. Today, Beth had, for the second time, Gamma Knife Radiation Surgery. The procedure was designed to target several brain cancer cells (the first Gamma knife was performed back on December 14th, where 6 tumors were treated). Seven more cancerous tumors were successfully treated today and our hope and prayer is that the additional chemo treatment regimen will also continue to treat the rest of where the cancer has spread in her body. As we continue to trust God with the results of these various treatments, we are also quite aware that only and ultimately, our sovereign God is providentially guiding the process by His loving and gracious plan. May His praise therefore be on our lips and may we depend entirely on His Word for our instruction in how to best glorify Him in everything—including cancer. Again, your prayers have been of such encouragement to Beth and me, helping to sustain us in our time of supreme testing. We love you all.

Pastor Lance

February 26, 2018

Thank you for your prayers and love for my Beth as we continue to navigate her journey with cancer. You are all probably aware that she was scheduled to have a second Gamma knife radiation surgery last Thursday, but right before the surgery was to be performed, it was halted due to Beth experiencing severe chest pain, which turned out to be pain from multiple blood clots in her lungs (later finding out that there were several in her legs also). These pulmonary emboli are extremely painful and Beth was immediately hospitalized that morning. Medications to prevent more clots from forming were administered and she was then released on Saturday evening from the hospital in order to try and rest at home. She is on blood thinners now and will be on this kind of medication for the rest of her life.

We also received a call this morning from the radiation oncology doctor and they are giving Beth a special appointment at 6AM this Wednesday for the much needed Gamma knife surgery so that the present brain lesions can be dealt with. We appreciate your prayers for Beth, especially given that she is still weak and yet otherwise, the soonest appointment we could have the Gamma knife procedure would be mid-March. Frankly, we simply can’t wait that long. It is a race against time for these multiple brain lesions to be radiated and for the other protocol to be dealing with the dangerous spread of the disease. So, Wednesday it is for the multi-hour radiation process. Pray that Beth will have the stamina to withstand the amount of time it takes to endure this procedure.

Finally, a biopsy of a cancerous lesion in her hip bone was also taken at the hospital on Thursday (the cancer has now spread to her bones), for the purpose of testing for possible mutation of the type of cancer that she has. This important biopsy report (which takes between 10-14 days to receive back from the lab), will help the oncologist to determine whether or not she is on the right chemo regimen. Please pray that we will find out this important information as soon as possible, particularly before her second scheduled chemo infusion on March 9th, if indeed a change in the chemo protocol is necessary due to the findings. March 9th also happens to be Beth’s 55th birthday.

Praying with you at the throne of God’s mercy and grace,

Pastor Lance

February 22, 2018

It's been a very long day. Beth had a terribly painful night last night in her chest area. We of course went ahead to the Gamma knife procedure this morning as planned, but the pain was so intense that the procedure had to be postponed until later. Beth was taken to the hospital and a subsequent CT scan has now been taken. The results are that Beth has pulmonary embolism in both of her lungs (this means multiple blood clots). These kinds of blood clots are very serious but especially in Beth's case with the lung cancer, and now with the clots adding to the dire situation.

She is being hospitalized as of today, with the hope of treating her so that she may be healthy enough to resume the next Gamma knife opportunity. Beth is also currently having a biopsy taken for the purpose of getting tissue to test for any potential cancer mutation which might/will change the direction of the treatment protocol. This biopsy was supposed to have been done on Monday, but in light of the pulmonary embolism we must now do it before they begin to thin her blood. Once they are finished with the biopsy, they'll start her on the anti-coagulation medicine for the embolism. We'll then work with Dr. Abelson on when she'll undergo the Gamma knife, and consult with Dr. Slomowitz on changes to her chemo protocol in light of both the embolism issue, and what we may find from the biopsy.

All in all, we're thankful to have found out what has been the cause of the incredible pain in her chest, and we're asking the LORD to help us with all the various treatments going forward. Through it all, Beth has phenomenally handled it with grace and strength. Thanks for your ongoing prayers and praise to our God for His ultimate will and purpose.

Pastor Lance

February 20, 2018

10:20 AM

Beth will indeed have the Gamma knife surgery on Thursday morning. We will arrive at 7:00AM. Thank you for praying. Thank you so much also for all your concern and love toward us. I will let all of you know how the procedure went, once I have Beth safely home again in the early afternoon. The surgery will take place here in Thousand Oaks, just slightly down the way from Los Robles Hospital.

Pastor Lance

February 16, 2018

9:55 AM

Beth and I are here at the doctor's office and she is being prepped for the first infusion treatment of chemo therapy. We will/should be here for about three hours or so. Thank you so much for all your prayers. We love you all!😍😍 Pastor Lance

February 12, 2018

I haven’t posted an update on my wife Beth’s cancer treatment in several weeks, mainly because we have been waiting for scans to be taken after the third infusion of the immunotherapy drug called Keytruda. In meeting doctors both on Friday and today, and as a result of the nine weeks of this kind of therapy, the news regarding the effectiveness of the infusions is not good. Because Beth has not responded to it, this means the cancer has continued to spread, both back to her brain (although in newer areas than before), and now to the liver, and of course, the places where it was before have grown ever larger. We of course are saddened to hear this news, but we must continue to trust and rely upon our sovereign Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Beth will now begin chemotherapy immediately this week, in an attempt to deal with the continuing spread of the cancer. Thank you all for praying for my dear wife, whom I love dearly. While her body is very weak and frail from the ravages of this disease, she is spiritually alert and faithful to her LORD.

So many of you have contributed to her GoFundMe account (under the name: Beth Quinn’s Medical), and we are overwhelmingly grateful to God for your sweet generosity. I am therefore including this information again for those of you who weren’t aware of it before. May God providentially orchestrate qualitatively and quantitatively good outcomes for Beth’s health in the days to come, according to His will and purpose.

Lance

February 8, 2018

I take Beth at 3:00 today to do a brain scan with the results tomorrow with the doctor at 9AM; and then tomorrow at 8AM a CT scan of the body and a consult with the oncologist on Monday, February 12, at 9AM. This will be a very important set of scans and consults. May God be honored and praised regardless of the results.

Lance

February 1, 2018

As we move into our second month of 2018, I want to thank you once again for your love and care for my wife, Beth, who is undergoing cancer treatment. This is a very important month for her, and of course for our entire family. She will have her third immunotherapy infusion on Wednesday, February 7th, and we presume within a few days after this, scans will be taken in order to gauge the relative effectiveness of the current therapy protocol. We therefore zealously covet your continued prayers for her. We are trusting our sovereign Savior for the providential results of these therapy infusions and are believing that He will lead us to His perfect, wise, and good outcome. May we all affirm the truth of Proverbs 3, leaning not on our own human (and therefore incomplete) understanding, acknowledging instead that it is God alone who graciously and wonderfully directs our paths for our eternal good and His great glory.

Pastor Lance

December 27, 2017

After her first infusion treatment, everything seemed to go pretty well. Of course, we won’t know how things are going until there are at least two, if not three treatments, each spaced out three weeks apart. Depending on whether she will have a scan after the second or third infusion, we hope to measure the effectiveness of the treatment. So, all in all, she’s doing okay. Now, pray for a lack of side affects and for her overall stamina and strength.

Thank you,

Pastor Lance

December 20, 2017

The medicine (Keytruda) was approved by our insurance! We are asking our God to allow this treatment to be successful!! Thank you. LQ

December 19, 2017

We have just seen the doctor. Here is the word: Beth definitely has stage 4 metastatic, non-small cell lung cancer which has spread to other areas of the body, but the good word is that she doesn't have to do extensive radiation and massive chemotherapy. A new immunotherapy cancer drug called, Keytruda, is going to give her the best opportunity for survival. The permission for receiving this drug has just been submitted to the insurance company today and it takes a week to receive the approval. Our sincere hope is that the treatment will begin next Tuesday once the permission is granted. This is far better news from our perspective than what we could have otherwise heard. The best case scenario is that, with the hope of this newer treatment, it will work to boost her own immune system in order to see the cancer cells reduced and potentially eliminated over time. No one knows of course how long someone can live with this particular treatment regimen. But our God is the One who holds the future and it is He holds us fast! Thank you for your continued, vital prayers on Beth's behalf.

Pastor Lance

December 14, 2017

Beth is now home after the radiation Gamma knife surgery. They found six lesions and not three, as originally assumed, but each of these were treated by the physicians through the radiation procedure. A PET scan is scheduled for Monday, and an overall treatment regimen is to be discussed with the oncologist on Tuesday. Beth is going to attempt to rest over the next several days, and we as a family wanted all of you to know how thankful we are for your prayers, love, service, and care for us and our long road ahead. may the Lord be praised for all His good gifts and gracious providence.

Pastor Lance

December 6, 2017

Beth has stage 4, non-smoking lung cancer which has now spread to her brain (and we suspect other places too). She will undergo gamma knife brain surgery next week. The oncologist said that it looks like (since the cancer has spread to vital areas), that we therefore need to be very aggressive with the ongoing treatment. We are now looking at these other forms of treatment and once we know the sub-type of this particular lung cancer, we will do whatever we can to take aggressive measures to fight this cancer. A PET scan might also reveal if the cancer has spread to any other location of which we are currently unaware, but the gamma knife surgery next Thursday is, for now, our first order of priority. We so appreciate your prayers for all of this. God is good and He does good in jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. We love you all.

Pastor Lance

December 4, 2017

Beth had a biopsy which we hope to receive a diagnosis about in the next few days. Once that diagnosis is given, a treatment regimen will be also recommended by the oncologist. Our sincere thanks to all for their loving care and prayers. May God give us His clear direction regarding the most optimum protocol which is ultimately chosen and may the Lord's will be done for His glory and for Beth's good.

With our gratitude for you love and intercessory prayers,

Pastor Lance

December 3, 2017

This is a summary of the announcement Pastor Lance made.

Pastor Lance Quinn announced today that his wife, Beth, is hospitalized at Los Robles Hospital following tests done yesterday that revealed abnormalities. Pastor Lance was in Baltimore, MD, teaching and preaching when his daughters, Lexa and Lisa, contacted him about their mother. They told their dad that mom didn't seem quite right and he told them to take her to the emergency room. In the ER they ran several tests and did a scan. After being at the ER for a while, Beth said she felt better and they released her to go home and rest. However, within a short period of time the hospital called her and said to come back immediately because the tests revealed abnormalities. Pastor Lance went directly to the airport to return home. What the doctors found were five tumors: two in the brain, one on the adrenal gland, one in the chest cavity near her heart, and another on her kidney. Specialists have been called in and doctors will begin biopsies tomorrow.